This is a story that I will be starting. I will also be working on a Epilogue for A Dangerous Man and future chapters for Wingmen of the Century. However, this will be my main story for some time.

Original story by Masseffect-Txs

Two Years Prior

*Pyrrha POV*

"JAUNE!"

At the sound of Nora's voice I instantly shot up and out of my bed fearing the worst and reaching for my weapons only to realize they weren't there and we were in our dorm rooms.

Quickly surveying the situation it seemed to be early morning and everything seemed to be normal. Excluding the fact that I was now up at 7 am on a Saturday.

"Nora, go back to bed. I'm sure he's just training," Ren said poking his head out from under his covers as he looked up at Nora who was now rifling through everyone's stuff looking for something.

"NO HE'S NOT REN! Everything's gone. Everything he ever had here is GONE!" she said to us and her voice was broken and sad as if she had just see someone die.

I've never seen Nora react like this so upon hearing her words I too began to search with her and as I did Ren got up from his bed and began to look with us.

It took me only a minute to realize what Nora had said was true. Nothing was here, absolutely anything and everything that Jaune had owned while here was gone as if he had never even been here. What the Hell.

Ren realized this almost immediately after I did and he had possibly the most severe reaction out of our team. While Nora was in the deepest realm of denial and I had tears pouring out of my eyes Ren clutched the bed frame of his and Nora's bunkbeds and slowly let himself down to sit on the bed.

He was at a complete loss for words, or to be more accurate, he looked lost. Like he had lost the only thing that gave him a purpose in life and it was just gone. All he could do was shake his head as if this wasn't happening and bury his face in his hands.

The tears that were leaving my eyes refused to let up as I leaned up against the wall and slid down it. I pulled my knees up in a last ditch effort to gain at least a little comfort but none came. The only thing that would give me comfort would be to see his face again.

As I continued to sob into my hands and knees Nora flew out the door, presumably to Team RWBY's room and sure enough they were inside within a minute looking for anything of Jaune.

It didn't take them long after seeing Ren and me to realize that what Nora said was true.

Ruby was the first to react and joined me in tears which really wasn't all that unexpected. Jaune was her first friend and I always suspected she had wanted something more. Next was Yang whose hair flared bright and her eyes went red. She then began to shout something about him hurting for making her sister cry and she stomped out of the room in a true fit of rage searing everything in the room because of her semblance.

Blake and Weiss held it together the best out of our little group as Blake sat in silence near Ruby making sure that she didn't freak out and Weiss. Well Weiss almost looked happy to have him gone. She never did like him, that much was obvious.

"Let's go talk to Ozpin! He definitely knows where Jaune-Jaune is," Nora spoke up sprinting out the door and we quickly followed determined not to be left behind by her.

It took us very little time to get to said headmasters office but with Nora leading the group we never really had to worry about going through checkpoints as Nora generally just blew threw them and generally left them destroyed. The only one she didn't blow up was Ozpins door as she waited patiently for us to catch up to go in together.

And that we did opening up the door to see Ozpin sitting at his desk sipping on his coffee. Before we could even say anything he held up his hand to silence us. He then reached into his desk, pulled out an envelope and gave it to us.

In silence we took the envelope but before we could open it Weiss spoke up.

"Is he gone sir?" she asked Ozpin in her usual polite tone but for the first time to me, it had a certain amount of venom to it.

"Yes. For now," he said calmly sipping his coffee and looking Weiss.

"Well then," she said snatching the envelope from my grasp and holding it. "When we bring him back we'll make him read this to us as punishment."

We were in shock as to her proclamation but it took us very little time to recover all nodding our heads at her suggestion.

We were going to bring him back.

~The Previous Night~

*Jaune POV*

"Well, Mr. Arc I wish you luck. And you're sure you want this?" he asked sipping his coffee.

"I'm sure Ozpin. I need to do this," I said with more confidence this time.

"Well, I wish you best of luck and I hope to see you in one year," he said with a slight smile on his face.

"I hope so too sir," I say extending my hand to him. He stood up and shook my hand. At that I turned around and began to walk out of the room but he stopped me before I could leave.

"Mr. Arc, please take this," he said holding a sword unsheathed from its scabbard.

The sword was a traditional katana with a grey hilt covered with crisscrossing black tape. The blade itself was almost pitch black entirely but had a silver wave pattern towards the flat side of the blade. That was about it for the blade but the scabbard was more interesting.

The scabbard was pure white but had bronze markings all over it. The markings looked anything but human in nature but there was a certain ancientness to them that was hard to shake from my mind.

"Why are you giving this to me?" I asked walking over and grabbing the sword and sheathing it within the scabbard.

"Just fulfilling a promise I made to a certain person," he said with a ghost of a smile on his face.

"Well, thank you sir. Be sure to give Pyrrha the letter and the rest the envelope," I say and with that I walked out the door and left Beacon.

~Present~

*Ozpin POV*

It's been almost two years since Mr. Arc left my academy after the Battle for Beacon. Not the best of timing for what he did as it left the already traumatized teams even more traumatized.

Needless to say Team NPR along with RWBY have not been the same since. They became a lot more isolate and with that a lot more powerful as a group. Not only that but they have grown a lot as people helping out wherever they are needed. Even though they became isolated from the other teams within Beacon and stopped going into town almost altogether they never really lost sight of who they were at the beginning. This meaning that even though Jaune left them their personalities were almost the exact same, although this might be because of their insane drive to find the boy.

I've been looking for him myself too the last year as he was supposed to come back but never did. My first thought about him not showing up was that he was dead but with the stories and the description along with them I couldn't believe that he was dead.

Apparently ever since Jaune left Beacon, almost an exact month to the day later stories began popping up all over Remnant, especially in the lands outside of the walls near settlements.

The reports were sporadic and never really held a pattern as they would pop up all around as if the person had no idea where they were going, another reason I believed it was Jaune, without a map that kid had absolutely no sense of direction.

Still though the reports got more and more impressive as time went on. Starting with the person only eliminating a small group of Beowolves to save a caravan and more recently where the person took down the entirety of a White Fang cell who were holding a town hostage, they were able to do this before the negotiating could even begin. Along with that they were able to eliminate an entire nest of Death Stalkers only a mile away from the White Fang cell.

This wasn't their only actions as they frequently helped the Faunus population everywhere they went. There are even some reports of them stopping fights between Faunus and Humans and as one report said they were able to successfully act as a mediator to the humans and Faunus of that area. When we sent people to investigate that town it turned out to be true as everyone in that town supported the story.

However, they wouldn't or more specifically couldn't tell us what the person looked like. Although, they did say that they wore a black hoody but and the townspeople described two swords that fit the look of Crocea Mors and the sword I gave him but apparently he had a little girl with him. A Tiger Faunus to be specific, who we had a picture of.

On top of all that they started to give him names such as: 'The White Knight'; 'The Wanderer'; 'The invincible' and many more but my personal favorite was: 'The Shield of the Broken'

*knock*

"Come in," I said and the door opened to reveal the whole of Team RWBY and NPR. I had forgotten that I had invited them to tell them about their mission.

"You wanted to brief us on our mission?" Ruby said as she and the rest of the two teams walked in. Ruby had gotten taller in the past two years growing out her hair to almost shoulder length and the tips were still red. She had also started to grow out in different ways, namely the chest but it still nowhere near what her sister had.

That being said Yang had become the very definition of beauty in every sense of the word. She was probably the most beautiful person to ever come through this school and trust me there have been some absolute stunners.

Weiss hadn't changed much as she had only just cut her pony tail shorter only reaching her shoulder now. She had also become taller slightly but she was now the shortest person in their group, much to her own dismay.

Blake had remained almost the same but now she proudly showed her cat hers throughout the school and had a tiny bit of one of the ears missing at the top.

Pyrrha was almost as beautiful as Yang in every way but she still maintained her perfect record and body. She too had gotten a bit taller, maybe an inch or two, and she started to wear a bit more armor than she had before. The armor was basically the same as before it just covered more of her body but she only ever wore it when out on a mission or to a briefing like she was now. [1]

Ren and Nora were honestly about the same as they had been two years ago. Nora the always happy and hyper girl and Ren, a man of very few words. The only thing that changed about them was that Nora grew two inches and had a black streak in her hair. She put it in there after the two started dating a year and a half ago. I assumed she did this to tell others they were together.

Everyone's weapons stayed about the same too, but a few of them have opted to modify their weapons in the last two years.

The biggest change in weapon was when Yang had enlarged Ember Cilica to go all the way up to her bicep, the actual mechanism was the same length only going to her forearm but the add-ons added armor that she desperately needed. It also acted as a substitute for Yang's lost arm. She also switched from regular 12 gauge shells to shells laced with red dust. This gave her rounds more power and heat usually leading to searing whoever or whatever she hit.

Weiss' Myrtenaster was now able to hold 12 dust shells instead of the previous 6 she was able to and with that she had developed a personalized speed reloader for it so she could reload within seconds.

Ren changed the blades on Storm Flower to more jagged one's as he had learned how to quickly get on top of larger Grimm and having the jagged blades helped him hold on. He had also amped up his ammo going for a little bit more stopping power than the .45 ACP and was now using 9mm rounds.

Pyrrha, Nora, Ruby and Blake had not changed their weapons at all.

"So what do you have for us today?" Professor Pyrrha asked calmly as she sat down on one of the few chairs in the room.

"Something I believe you will like," I say pulling up a picture of the girl that had been seen with the man.

They looked genuinely confused as to why I would bring a picture of this young Faunus girl up. Blake was the only one in the group who looked more shocked than confused and she was also the first to speak up.

"You want us to find the girl that's been seen with The Wanderer? Why?" it was no surprise to me that she knew of the person, after all he was beginning to become the champion of the Faunus.

"Because Miss Belladonna I believe that the person you've been looking for and The Wanderer are one in the same," as I said those words realization dawned across her face and the others may not have known who The Wanderer was but they definitely knew what I was talking about.

"You mean Jaune don't you?" Ruby said voicing the thoughts of everyone in the room.

"Yes." I said simply sitting back down and waiting for them to ask their questions.

"Where do we go and what do we look for?" was Pyrrha's immediate question not taking the time to talk to the others but in all seriousness their question would've been the same, just less rude.

"You'll be taken by a Bullhead tonight around midnight to a city outside the walls to the North of us. It'll be a 12 or 13 hour flight so pack some snacks if you want to, the Bullhead will have a bathroom. Once you get there you'll have to look yourself. However, if you do find this girl I would suggest that you stay as close to her as possible. It'll give you a better chance of finding in," I say and they all nodded leaving the room in silence go get ready for their journey.

I feel like I forgot to give them something.

*Ruby POV*

~Several Hours Later in Team RWBY's room~

"So what do you guys think? Could it really be him?" I asked our now silent group of seven friends who continued to pack for the journey.

"I don't know but if he thinks that he's going to be getting away with what he's done without getting punishment he's sorely mistaken," Weiss said as she looked up from her packing.

"I agree with Ice Queen. He made you and Pyrrha cry Rubes. If he's coming back his face will be having a private meeting with my fists," Yang said cracking her knuckles.

"I too agree with this. However, he didn't just run away if anything about this White Knight is true than he's been doing good everywhere he's been. He should at least get credit for that," Blake said adamantly. It made since coming from her as she was a Faunus and The White Knight has done amazing things for her community.

"I just want to see his face again… You guys can do what you want to him once you see him but I just want to see his face again," Pyrrha said as she was sitting on Blake's bed with her stuff all packed. Silence followed for what felt like an eternity after she said that but thankfully Yang began talking again.

"What about you two. Ren. Nora. What do you think of all this?" she asked as she finished packing and leaned up against the bed post with her arms crossed.

"HE'S GOING TO APOLAGIZE ON HIS HANDS AND KNEES FOR WHAT HE'S DONE TO US!" Nora said jumping up as if she was ready to decapitate someone.

"Yeah! That's the spirit," Yang shouted back at her and the two high fived.

"What about you Ren?" Blake said as she finished packing her stuff. She thought none of us noticed her put her book in her bag but we all did. Honestly though that book isn't a book at all, it's porn. Well written porn, but porn none the less.

"I'm going to hurt him as much as humanly possible and once I'm done I'm going to welcome him back," he said with an eerily wicked smile. Nora was the only one who wasn't fazed, that was expected though as it is Nora.

With that most of us had finished packing so we got up and went to the cafeteria for a late dinner. It was mostly deserted save for Cardin who sat in the corner with Velvet at his table.

Cardin and his team are probably the most improved team here not only in the way of how they worked as a team and their ability on the battlefield but also who they were as people. They went from degenerate scum to people you could actually stand and Jaune had no doubt played a part in that.

Now as to why Velvet was sitting with him, well that was one hell of a week at Beacon. Mostly because it broke the record for the amount of repair money that was needed. It would take too long to explain in detail but essentially Velvet beat the living crap out of Cardin for something, I don't know why because at that point he had stopped being racist. And apparently ever since then he's been hanging around with her a lot.

When we asked him about this it he told us that he was repenting for everything he's done by helping her in every way possible.

I don't think I've been more shocked in my life but Hell, he's made leaps and bounds since that day about 8 months ago.

Continuing the dinner was meatloaf…. with no cookies anywhere in sight. I don't feel like eating anymore.

~The next day 2 minutes from the landing zone~

"Everyone get ready to jump," I shouted over the roar of the engine as we approached the area where we were going to be dropped off.

The others response to my command was pleasant as they did what I said and prepared themselves to jump out. All of them with their bags either slung over their shoulders or being held at their side. As to what was in the bags it was really just the essentials: emergency rations, blanket, pitch able tent and first aid along with extra ammo and tools for weapon maintenance.

"Alright. This is it, see ya later kids," Sid our pilot said to us through the Bullheads speakers and at the sound of his voice we dropped out and into a clearing.

As soon as we touched down I ordered the others to set up a perimeter just short of the edge of the clearing so that they were all in sight of each other. Once they were all in position I pulled out the map I had brought and began to look over it. If the coordinates for the town Ozpin told us about were correct than we were no more than a five minutes jog going North from at our current position. Perfect.

"Alright guys," I say calling to them and they came back over to me. "We're only about a five minutes jog away from the town. Ren and Blake, you two are on point. Pyrrha and Yang, you two will take the flanks of Weiss and I in the middle. Nora, you'll bring up the rear. Feel free to smash anything that gets to close but don't use your grenade launcher unless you absolutely need to. Everyone got it?" I asked looking around for any signs of confusion but found none. With that we began our little jog to the town.

As we expected on our short run we ran into some Grimm but they were only a couple of Beowolves. However, there was something about them that was off. When we came across them they were running, not chasing something but running away from something. And to be honest when I saw the Grimm they looked scared, if that was even possible for them.

We quickly dispatched them as they came to us and continued on our way to the town.

When we arrived at the town we stopped to take in the sight. The town was incredibly vibrant for one outside of the walls and everyone we saw seemed content with how they were living and how things were going. Except for the people at the bar.

The bartender was a deer Faunus who was currently serving an obese black haired man who was treating him terribly. Shouting all kinds of Faunus slurs and it was a shock to me that Blake actually held herself back. All we could do was watch though, it wasn't our job to do correct them and if we did we'd only be making the situation worse as they would exact revenge once we left.

That didn't stop Pyrrha though as she began to walk forward towards the man only to run into a little girl with a hood and knocked her ice cream to the ground.

"I'm sorry, I didn't see you there," Pyrrha said looking at the girl who was now staring down at her ice cream. Once Pyrrha noticed this she immediately began to apologize profusely as she used to in the past. The little girl though threw back her hoody revealing tiger ears and asked Pyrrha to buy her a new one giving her a big smile and skipping away. Pyrrha on the other hand completely froze and she didn't move until the girl came back to Pyrrha giving us a look at her face leaving us all in shock.

It was the girl that had been sighted with The White Knight. I don't know how we did it but we stumbled onto her but I think we'll take just about anything at this point.

"So, what's your name?" Yang asked going full big sister mode. It was surprising how much she could change in a matter of seconds.

"My names Lily. What are yours?" she asked as innocently as possible as she looked around at us.

"Yang," my sister said and as soon as she introduced herself she began to introduce us one by one. Starting with Ren who was next to her and went around a circle all the way to Blake who was on the other side of the girl. For some reason as Yang went around the group the girl seemed to recognize us.

Shrugging off as nothing though I zoned out of the conversation that yang was having with Lily and chose to instead look over at the obese man who was still harassing the deer Faunus.

"I'll have you know that I'm The White Knight and if you don't start to treat me with respect I'll burn this dump you call a bar to the ground," I actually chuckled at this. There was no way that this wan was him. First of all the guy was way to overweight to even be in shape to do that and fro what I could tell the guy didn't seem to have his aura unlocked.

The deer Faunus seemed to be thinking the same thing and actually threw the man out of the bar. However, the man was caught by a rather burly man and several others all armed to the teeth and all their auras were unlocked. They were probably mercenary hunters.

"Boss! You okay?" the man said who caught him.

"Yeah. Just burn it to the ground!" the man said catching the attention of the rest of my group. We moved to intercept but before we could a man with black overcoat and hood that completely covered his face moved in front of the bar with a black katana drawn and silently shook his head at the men.

They obviously didn't listen at all and pulled their own weapons, three would charge the man right away. The man didn't even move from his spot as he took down all three of the men who charged and slowly shook his head at the other men.

The rest of the men seemed to have learned their lesson about charging the man but they didn't leave him alone.

The remaining five attacked the man in a combination of close ranged and medium ranged attacks forcing the man to actually move. However, when he did he took down every single man with only one swing of his sword. When all the men were down for the count the man slowly walked up to the obese man who had started this all and pointed his sword under his neck. When he did this his aura flared white and surrounded him in tendrils of white flame.

"Don't ever show your face here again," the man said and his voice was familiar but I couldn't pin point it.

And with that the obese man got up and began to run away into the forest.

We began to approach the man as soon as he chased the other one away assuming that it was The White Knight but as we approached a black blur shot by us holding what looked like a red staff. The blur then began to attack the hooded man; as they began to fight we realized that it was Lily who had begun attacking the man. We had no idea what was going on so taking the safe route I ordered the others to wait and watch, we would detain both after their fight ended.

They fought for several seconds but it was more of a dance as the man simply dodge every attack. That is until Lily tried to hit him over the head and the man spun around and kicked her in the chest sending her right into us.

"C'mon Lily. I know that you're better than thaaattttt," the man said as he faced us with his hood now down. Ozpin had been correct, it was Jaune.

"H-Hey guys," he said scratching back of his head while he motioned for Lily to come to him with his sword. All the while he was slowly backing away from us.

"Aren't these the people you left behind dad?" Lily said in cutely blunt manner.

"Dad?!" all of us say in unison, except for Run who had disappeared.

"Yeah, that's a long story now Lily," he said in an almost pleading as he motioned with his sword for Lily to come to him but she never got the chance.

All of a sudden Ren appeared behind Jaune and went to kick him in the back of the head only for Jaune to spin around at an incredible speed, grab his leg and throw him at us.

*3rd Person POV*

As soon as Ren connected with his friends and went unconscious they sprung into attack. Ruby and Nora took the high ground within the trees creating cover fire for their friends as they attacked Jaune. Blake was the first of the group to reach him and as she swung at him with Gambol Shroud he simply dodge, grabbed her ear and kicked the incoming Yang.

Now it is unfair for Jaune to grab Blake's ear and he deeply despised doing this but Jaune learned within the first two weeks after leaving Beacon that fighting fair only lead to death.

As he held Blake's ear he spun her in front of him causing Pyrrha and Weiss to stop abruptly as the closed in on him. He used their pause to his advantage as he pushed Blake forward towards them and as he did he straight kicked her in the back sending into Weiss. The force of the kick sent both of them into one of the buildings walls and knocked both of them out.

At this both Nora and Ruby abandoned the trees they were in and attacked Jaune in unison. They were the only two attacking as Yang was just recovering from the kick she had suffered and Pyrrha was checking on Weiss and Blake.

As Ruby and Nora attacked they worked together with incredible ease. Ruby using her speed and the power of her weapon to attack in intervals while Nora attacked relentlessly with her hammer. Jaune was barely able to fend off these attacks and took plenty of hits bringing down his aura to about 70%. Once it reached that number though he decided it might be about time to get serious.

As Nora and Ruby commenced another combo attack Jaune dropped the black sword and caught both Magnhild and Crescent Rose at the same time with his hands glowing with his aura. Once he had both their weapons in his hands he ripped them out of theirs and threw the opposite weapon at the other. Ruby was hit dead in the face by Magnhild and Nora by Crescent Rose. Both weapons knocking them out.

All that was left was Yang and Pyrrha. And as Yang saw her baby sister get knocked out she subsequently freaked out and attacked Jaune at full force. Jaune had expected this but he had vastly underestimated her power and she blew right through his defenses. She would get his aura down to almost 40% before he would even be able to counter.

Once he was able to do so however he turned the fight around and Yang was immediately on the defense just doing her best to block his katana. However, the speed of the Katana and the way Jaune used it wore down on Yang quickly and she was easily finished just within a minute after their fight had begun.

The last one left standing now was Pyrrha who had decided to take fight Jaune one on one. An adamant proposition for the young warrior.

They both squared off from each other a respectable 15 feet away. They observed each other for a solid 30 seconds before they moved. Pyrrha was the first to make a move attacking Jaune and their fight something that couldn't be followed by normal eyes.

The class of their weapons sent sparks flying in every which direction actually starting a fire on a nearby haystack. Parry after parry, bash after bash and punch after punch they matched each other but at the end the fight ended the same as it had for the others.

Pyrrha was on her knees with a sword under her neck.

"Please, Jaune. Come back," she said with tears in her eyes as she believed that he was going to leave but with the arrival of his old team and friends he had decided it was time to come back.

"Of course I will. I can't leave you guys alone anymore," he said with a goofy smile on his face. The same one he had two years ago and the same one that had claimed Pyrrha Nikos' heart.

With that Pyrrha began to get everyone he had knocked out back up and in the meantime Jaune and Lily began to repair everything that they had damaged.

Once they finished with this NPR and RWBY were back on their feet and Ruby had already called in a Bullhead for extraction.

When Jaune turned around to go to the others Pyrrha had already walked up to him planning on telling him it was time only for them to come face to face, mere inches apart. Now, they looked at each other awkwardly for several seconds before they began to talk but that proved to be even worse for the situation.

"So… uhhh… how you been Pyrrha?" Jaune asked in a way that would only be described as the epitome of nervousness.

"G-Good. What about you?" she asked in a similar tone. Mind you they are still within an inch of Eskimo kissing.

"Wait, Dad. This is the redhead you talked about?" Lily said deciding to break the awkward moment the two had created and created a rather enjoyable one for the spectators.

"Yyyyyyy-yes Lily. This is the girl," Jaune said with an awkward and nervous smile on his lips. One you probably already know the reason for.

"Oh, so s-" she was cut off their by Jaune who had moved with an incredible speed and had his hands over her mouth.

"Not another word," he whispered into her ear low enough so that no one else heard. As a result though no one heard what he said but all of them guessed what he said.

Either way there was now a silence among the group as they were done with the awkwardness. However, Yang decided to take advantage of Jaune being distracted as he looked at Pyrrha and she looked at him to hit Jaune with a massive right hook. Needless to say he got: KNOCKED THE FUCK OUT.

"Okay. Let's go guys," she said hoisting Jaune onto her shoulder.

"Was that really necessary Yang?" Pyrrha asked

"No but I really wanted to do that. Also, think about it this way Pyrrha. Now with him unconscious you can undress him literally instead of with your eyes," Yang said walking away towards the LZ where the Bullhead would be in a few minutes.

[1]: Search Arkos Battle Forever Fall to see the armor that she wears.

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